[Newbie] Making a caching-only bind9 manage a local zone?!
Simon Hobson
shobson0309 at colony.com
Thu Nov 27 09:20:16 UTC 2003
Thore Schmechtig wrote:
>I have a small home network with 3 clients and one linux server (SuSE
>8.1 pro, IP Masquerading + caching-only bind9) that connects the
>clients to the net. I use a dialup DSL connection, named.conf is
>dynamically modified by smpppd. I have been running bind9 with the
>preconfigured caching-only config without problems for several months
>now.
>Now I want to add zone files for my own zone, but bind just won't find
>the data in there. I have checked out the DNS howto in tldp.org, I
>cannot find any mistake, but it won't work. To me, newbie who I am, it
>looks like bind simply ignores that there are additional zone files in
>its .conf-file now.
>
>So, question: How to set the options in named.conf for this to work (i.
>e. add my own dns zone to the preconfigured localhost zone)?
Just a thought, do you have a global forward only statement in the
config, and have you overridden this in the zone declaration ?
Otherwise, try posting the full config file.
Simon
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